Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 13:37 +0200 schrieb Jakub Wilk:
> * Daniel Leidert <[email protected]>, 2009-02-20, 15:33:
> >The problem has been discussed recently and it was found, that a
> >straight apostrophe cannot be represented in a portable way.
> >
> >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
> >https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2412738&group_id=21935&atid=373747
> >
> >Using `\(aq' creates a problem with non-GNU troff, because it is a GROFF
> >extension and doesn't output anything with AT&T troff.
> >
> >So I have to tag this wontfix for the moment.
> 
> Can we at least have an option to produce manual pages that are 
> non-portable while being displayed correctly on Debian systems?

I won't implement such an option. There is no reason to add a way to
produce un-portable manual pages. If you want to do this you'll find a
workaround you can put in your customization layer in [1].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507673#28

Regards, Daniel




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